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I'm redesigning an old reporting application for the Web, - previously it was a Windows Application. I have in mind two approaches, and I do not know which one is preferable for the users, so I hoped ...

Basically, I have a data table in the main content area and a filter section on the sidebar. The filter on the left serves as a filter for the data that would appear in the data table.
Now, each of ...

Should the scrollbar width be thin/sleek or thick so that user can grab using mouse and scroll? I know most of them prefer using a mouse while scrolling. In terms of usability should width be thick or ...

I am designing an application which displays tickets. The tickets are displayed in a list. There can be hundreds of tickets in the list. When the user selects an item (i.e. ticket) from the list, the ...

There's this interaction on Airbnb (example page: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/432044), where the section containing the price, "Request to Book" call to action, etc. on the right are scrolled with ...

I've been thinking about the way most OS's handle scrollbars. The general pattern is an invisible scrollbar that only appears when the user scrolls. This is the case on Mac OS, iOS and Android (see ...

I'm creating a mobile app that needs to be suitable for elderly people. As is common for mobile apps, scrolling is done by dragging the screen up or down.
However, I'm unsure if elderly people will ...

In a user input form, a field has 20 (or more) checkboxes which can grow dynamically. What is the best way to show this to the user. Can I use scrollbar on div with fixed height. Or should I display ...

We've recently started developing a web application and are having problems with responsiveness in the design. Every time I try suggest a scrollbar as a solution I am told "No, it's an application so ...

We have a page in our website that has a container with a static width and height (e.g. 500px x 500px). We are intending to keep the content inside short (to make it fit the size of the box).
But in ...

Is it too much have both a sticky header (at the top of the viewport) and a sticky social bar (on the bottom) on mobile devices???
A sticky header is important for the user, but a sticky social bar ...

Working on a custom filter of an ecommerce website, which has an inline frame since the list is really long. there will be an index so the used can jump to certain letters in the list. there will be a ...

One of the pages in our web app has a long table of paginated results. The user can set the number of results per page which means the page can be very long (e.g. 200 rows). There is only one vertical ...

The scrollbar thumb has two purposes.
To grab hold of to scroll down the content.
To give a visual indication of how much content is contained.
However, this raises the theoretical possibility that ...

In LibreOffice, scrollbar isn't on the screen edge (for maximized window) when sidebar is enabled:
This breaks the Fitt's law, as screen edges are important target for cursor movement.
On the other ...

In windows, it's a fairly common experience to stumble on an app with a horizontal scrollbar and be forced to click and drag the scrollbar (terrible UX), where as in most Mac devices you can simply ...

For some reason, those 3 horizontal bars centered in this Jabber client application is something I associate with something you can drag down, but I can't remember at all why I associate 3 bars with ...

On a home page I have two modules with a content that doesn't fit within the fold of the page: the main content and notifications on the right side. So I have some options:
Two separate scroll bars ...

I have noticed on certain websites that are implemented as a single page and free scrolling view in browsers that when you trigger a pop-up or modal window a second scrollbar appears to allow the user ...

I often get these complain from my management team when i design long pages for them. I cant cut on information only because i have to fit in it one page. Some really basic users do not know if they ...

I've recently seen latest mac os is having invisible scroll bars which will be visible only once your mouse comes onto it. I think it is a bit tough for the user to know if there is a page overflow or ...

Nowadays it's totally common to see mobile UIs without any visible scroll bars.
But I'm wondering if there actually are benefits with adding a vertical scroll bar on a mobile UI and if these benefits ...

In this day in age, it seems that our users are accustomed to scrolling. Sure, it's good to have your main points "above the fold", or in other words, above the point in the browser window that the ...

Nested scrollbars (a scrollable area within another scrollable area) present some unfortunate difficulties, mainly when scrolling trough them with the mouse wheel.
Whether such scrollbars are a good ...

Is it bad UX to put a scroll bar in a module with a list, is there ever a case to use this?
My developer says its a bad idea and just annoys users.
Should this kind of thing never be used?
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Is it safe to assume all users are aware of using the mouse wheel to scroll and that all users have a mouse wheel on their mouse?
I'm hoping to implement a scrollbar which stays hidden even when you ...

I am interested in the logic why Apples hides the vertical scroll bar. In many cases it hide the fact that there is more vertical data that what appears on a specific window. Only when you scroll up ...

When dragging the scrollbar using the mouse, the contents of the scrollpane move up and down as the bar moves with the mouse. But if you keep the mouse button held down, and move the pointer sideways ...

I'm designing a feature for a product, which is going to bring down a panel that contains a list of virtual machines. The user will use this panel frequently to - start, stop and deploy services into ...

Picture describing the problem can be seen below.
Issue : users can't scroll the page (vertically) properly as the mouse wheel is caught by the categories of items which do scroll horizontally
There ...

On the Mac (since Lion) the scrollbars are invisible, by default, until you actively scroll. Some web applications, notably Office 365 and Gmail, create their own scrollbars that are consistent across ...

Currently we have a table of results which has both a vertical and horizontal scroll due to the number of columns and rows displayed.
A user has requested we add the horizontal scroll at the top of ...